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What is Your Laundry Style?

Unless you do your laundry naked, you'll never truly be finished with
it, unfortunately. Let's get your laundry process sorted out so you can
focus on other things, naked or not. Which type of laundry-doer are you?

Here are three different styles of handling your laundry process to fit any family's needs. Choose one of these methods, stick with it, and never again will you hear, "Mom, I don't have any underwear!" on a school morning!/

Batcher:

Batch up all of your laundry for one day per week, focus on it, and do it all that day, completely through to putting it all away in closets and drawers.

Use a timer to remind you to switch out loads in the machines and keep it moving.

Choose a central folding area to pile it all up and sort it out, like a large bed or a dining table.

Advantage: On all of the other days, you can completely ignore the laundry and feel no guilt!

Disadvantage: You have a lot of laundry to do all at once and it could be overwhelming.

How to Make It Not Boring: People who choose this method often like doing this on a weekend, such as a Saturday, when they are going to be cleaning the house or puttering around anyway. You can watch movies, catch up on your DVR recordings, or listen to audiobooks while you fold.

Super Speedy Variation: If you take all of it to a laundromat, you can have all of your loads running at one time! Bring a good book and knock it all out in a very compressed amount of time.

Daily Doer:

Do something with your laundry every morning or evening. Make it a habit just like eating your breakfast.

Depending upon your volume of laundry, each day you could take a load to the next step, or you could resolve to do a load a day all the way through.

Advantage: You never get overwhelmed because it's just one load. It's easy to put away, easy to handle. You're always on top of it.

Disadvantage: You may feel like you never get a break.

How to Fit It In: Find little bits of time when you are already in that area, such as breakfast time. You could switch out loads while your toast is browning or coffee is percolating. If you do it in the evening, you could use TV commercials as a cue to check the machines and fold while you watch your favorite shows.

Delegator:

Negotiate with a family member who doesn't mind doing the laundry and have them take it off your hands in exchange for your permanently doing something they don't like.

Have the kids do their own laundry when they are old enough.

Consider a laundry service. It may cost less than you think! What would you pay to never have to worry about it again?

Advantage: Ahhh! It's off your plate!

Disadvantage: Cost, if you use a service, and if others are doing it they may not do it exactly the way you would.

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